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For the incoming message.casa mailbox hosting (see https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01K7J5JX8JHSPNE8RMPQT9J8RT ), I plan to use a different character for the "plus addressing".

pseudo+amazon@message.casa is too easy to break by email address scrappers. They remove the + and the following before selling your address.

I would like to use a different character, but this one could not be present in the main pseudo to avoid naming conflict.

first.lastname-amazon@message.casa if I set the dash as separator (but no dash in the pseudo).

first-lastname.amazon@message.casa if I set the dot as separator (but no dot in the pseudo)

I don't know which is the best option 🤔

#postfix #email

Poll closed , 10 votes total
  • Option 1, pseudo-tag @ message.casa
    20% , 2 votes
  • Option 2, pseudo.tag @ message.casa
    80% , 8 votes

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Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann , @dolanor@hachyderm.io
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@adele Personnaly, I set up a new alias for any new service provider I need. I went with a rule like:
full.name.account@example.com
and some
fn.whatever.provider@example.com

So I need some kind of shortcut that create the prefix for each alias. Then I use the `.` as separator.

863 aliases, and counting.

Actually, I still want to create a mobile app that works offline first and gives a bunch of random aliases like the docker containers
fn.crazy-einstein@example.com

And then, I can add some extra info like : given this email at this random dude at convention XYZ. So then, as soon as I get spam on it, I can just kill the alias forever, and kill the spam game right at the beginning. And also flag that person as not safe to give extra info to (they could have installed a shitty app that siphoned their contact list).

And when there is a leak of your email + password hash, they can't really cross with other leaks as it's from another email alias.

I want the offline first mobile app to preload some stupid aliases on the service when it has network, so when you are in a big conference that has very bad connectivity, you can still give an alias instead of a real email because the alias creation page didn't load. This happened to me, and I gave my main address and got spammed for 2 years because the conference organizers sold this email to everybody and their mothers.

The current project is: github.com/dolanor/ldap-web
(the naming sucks, and the README as well)

That I use with my self hosting docker compose
github.com/dolanor/dsuite